Thanksgiving Day 2012. A day for thanks.
For what are you thankful?
A country in which we live freely?
Family?
Friends?
Feeling safe?
Having what you need?
For me, it is certainly not about Black Friday, Small Business Saturday or Cyber Monday.
The first thing for which I was thankful today was that I don't pay for my daily newspaper by the pound. And that I'm not the newspaper delivery man. I'm thankful for my Northwest Herald carrier, because he delivers my paper to the door.
The desperation of retailers screamed by the pile of advertising as I headed for the recycling bag with it. Every last piece of it. Black Friday seems to start now on Thanksgiving Eve, continue through Thanksgiving Day and into the evening and resume earlier and earlier on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Will the American public ever come to its senses?
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3 comments:
It's called "GREED"!
The dollar they are after today,
will be there tomorrow!
I'm thankful that beer is still priced lower than a gallon of gas or a bottle of water. DOH!
And to our Muslim friends out there who dont celibrate our Nov holiday, Allah Akbar!!! :)
Will the American public ever come to its senses?
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Tensions ran high for shoppers who abandoned their turkey dinners Thursday night to line up for Black Friday deals.
The evening was particularly intense for one shopper who allegedly pulled a gun on a man who punched him in the face while in line at a Sears store at the South Park Mall in San Antonio, TX, police told San Antonio Express-News.
Sgt. Rob Carey said that a man was trying to cut his way to the front of the line, which didn't sit well with his fellow shoppers, according to San Antonio Express-News. Arguments escalated to name calling before the alleged line-cutter punched another shopper in the face.
Witnesses told San Antonio News that the man who was punched then pulled out a gun and a pointed it at the line-cutter, but police say the man actually pointed the gun at the ground. The crowd of waiting shoppers scattered when he pulled the gun, and the man who was trying to cut the line ran and hid behind a refrigerator before he ran out of the store, according to witnesses.
The man who pulled the gun was not charged because he had a concealed handgun license. Shopping resumed shortly after the incident, police told San Antonio Express-News.
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Here's a story that covers both concealed carry and Black Friday in the same article! Thank God there was someone with a permit to carry a gun and let that line cutter know it! God bless America.
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